Surnames

You may have noticed I haven’t been updating this blog as regularly as I’d intended (or indeed at all) over the past year. That’s partly due to lack of time and partly due to burnout caused by my day job as a genealogy librarian. Don’t get me wrong, I love what I do, but it […]

Last week I was finally able to participate in #genchat again, which was so much fun! The subject of the chat was US migration patterns and so the #genchat challenge was to map your ancestors’ migration across the world, across the country, or even across town. In the chat, Jen had mentioned using Pinterest for […]

Although this is Week 4 of the actual 52 Ancestors Challenge, I’m only getting started now. At this point in my own genealogical research I doubt I have investigated enough people to discuss 52 ancestors in a year, anyway, so I will be participating however often I can. I also intend to use this blog […]